UF enters its final weekend of the regular season with a lot to play for.
During Sunday’s match against Mississippi State, coach Roland Thornqvist walked up to senior Kourtney Keegan to talk with her about her singles match.
Ingrid Neel was angry.
Coach Roland Thornqvist described this weekend’s matches against Ole Miss and Mississippi State as “another weekend in the SEC.” However, there’s more to it than that.
Weather has been a factor for the UF men’s tennis team recently.
Nineteen games into the season, Roland Thornqvist doesn’t have his lineup figured out.
After a week with very little practice and two players sick with the flu, the Gators women’s tennis team could’ve played slow. Instead, they dominated.
The UF men’s tennis team took care of business on Thursday night when it took the courts at the Alabama Tennis Stadium.
On the way home from last weekend’s road matches, Roland Thornqvist had a lot on his mind. While the Gators women’s tennis team had just won two straight road games, the coach was thinking about another sport: basketball.
The UF men’s tennis team is entering a difficult stretch in their schedule: a four game SEC road stint.
After attending a family funeral and missing Friday’s match against Arkansas, Kourtney Keegan met her team in Missouri on Saturday.
Two very different teams played each other at Florida’s Ring Tennis Complex on Sunday when UF faced off against SEC rival Vanderbilt.
The Gators women’s tennis team had seen this before. Late in singles play with the match on the line against an SEC opponent, it all came down to one tiebreaker set.
The Gators didn’t go to work on March 17. Coach Roland Thornqvist said they weren’t prepared. They lacked confidence. And they ultimately paid the price, losing their first match of the season to rival Georgia, 4-1.
After Friday’s match against Georgia, the Gators women’s tennis team’s players walked off the court with their heads down. As fans left the Ring Tennis Complex, they voiced their disbelief.
The UF men’s tennis team began its SEC weekend road trip today when it traveled to Oxford to take on Ole Miss at the Palmer-Salloum Tennis Center.
Before the start of the SEC season, both coaches and players on the Gators women’s tennis team described conference play as “brutal.”
The University of Florida men’s tennis team captured a much-needed win over then-No. 23 South Carolina on Sunday. Heading into its matchup with the Gamecocks, the team had lost four out of its last five matches.
With the doubles point on the line, Brooke Austin ran up the court, turned her arm and swung.
After blanking No. 24 South Carolina 4-0, the Gators women’s tennis team didn’t celebrate. Players didn’t jump up and down, nor did they scream down the court. While obviously happy with the win, Florida appeared all business — just how coach Roland Thornqvist likes it.
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